| 单词 | on game |
| 释义 | > as lemmason game a. In jest. Cf. sense 3. In early use also †on game.Now only in explicit contrast to in earnest. ΚΠ c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) l. 1716 Hise wif dede ubbe sone in fete And til hire seyde, al on gamen. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3498 Tac ðu nogt in idel min name, Ne swer it les to fele in gamen. c1410 tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 111 A preost Edmond..seide in game, ‘Why chese ȝe nouȝt me myself?’ a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) v. §6. 19 Til perfite men it falles not to leghe, nouþer in ernest ne in gamen. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream i. i. 240 As waggish boyes, in game, themselues forsweare. View more context for this quotation 1617 J. Davies Wits Bedlam sig. F3v Yet run'st from me in Earnest, and in Game, Though oft I write with thee, to spread thy fame! 1792 Ld. Mountmorres Hist. Irish Parl. 1634–66 I. 25 In words the king seemed to give him leave to follow his device; but to say the truth, it was rather in game than in earnest, for the king minded nothing less. 1898 Harvard Monthly Oct. 46 Contributors to these pages have for the most part taken their work in earnest rather than in game; they have in the main been truly serious. 1996 I. Johnson in C. Given-Wilson Illustr. Hist. Late Medieval Eng. 140 Some are in game, others in earnest, some both. < as lemmas |
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